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Privacy Policy

Personal information held by us

This privacy notice tells you what to expect when NI Connections collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:

Visitors to our website.

People who use our services including NI Connections customers and attendees at events we organise.

The personal information we collect is held by Invest Northern Ireland.

We review our privacy notice regularly and will place any updates on this page. This privacy policy applies only to Invest Northern Ireland and its website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices within any other websites that you may link to from this site.

Visitors to our website

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to the various parts of NI Connections’ website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.

The tool we use to analyse visitor patterns uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer to collect information. You can decide if you want to accept or reject cookies by changing the settings on your browser.

We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our web site, we will make it clear when we collect it and will explain what we intend to do with it.

People who use NI Connections services

We need to hold the details of the people who have signed up to NIConnections in order to provide them with the necessary advice or support. The data that we keep on record may include your name, company name, contact details and employment details. Please do not provide us with information if you do not want it stored.

Security of your personal information

Invest NI, on behalf of NI Connections, carefully protects your data from loss,
misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or alteration in line with information governance policies. NIConnections information is held separately from that of Invest NI and will only be used for the purposes on NIConnections work. Internally,
data is stored in password–controlled servers with restricted access.
Information will be destroyed in line with the retention schedule within our Records Management Policy.

Disclosure of personal information

To deliver a service we may need to share your information with the Department for the Economy, other agencies involved in economic development, organisations that deliver our programmes, and the European Commission. We will never pass on information other than for the purpose for which it was provided to us.

When you provide personal information to us, you understand and agree that:

This may involve the information being used by NI Connections for direct mailing with regards to NIConnections and Northern Ireland as a whole.

NI Connections may send you information by email.

NIConnections may use your information to invite you ton NIConnections events that may be happening near your location.

As required by law, we may disclose information to government bodies and law enforcement agencies for their enforcement purposes.

NI Connections will not sell your personal information.

Opt–out to disclosure of personal information

If you do not want your details to be used in any of the ways described above, please tell us.

Please note that it may not be possible to provide some NI Connections services if you do not allow us to disclose information provided to us.

You can opt out at any time from receiving marketing material by emailing info@niconnections.com

Access to personal information

You can find out if we hold any personal information about you by making a
‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 1998. If we do hold information about you we will:

Give you a description of it.

Tell you why we are holding it.

Tell you who it could be disclosed to.

Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

Accuracy of personal information

While we try to keep our data current, we request that you inform us of any changes in your personal information so that we may keep our records up to date.

Freedom of Information

In releasing information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we will strive to ensure that we will not conflict with our duties as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Complaints or queries

If you think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate please contact us through our complaint page or in writing;
Complaints & Feedback, Invest Northern Ireland, Bedford Square, Belfast,
BT2 7ES.

If you require a copy of this notice in an alternative format (including Braille, disk, audio cassette or in minority languages to meet the needs of those who are not fluent in English), then please contact the Equality Team on 028 9069 8273; Text phone
028 9069 8585 or email equality@investni.com.